Car-lever.



No. 818,576. PATENTED APR. 24, 1906.

G. B. SULLIVAN.

GAR LEVER.

APPLICATION FILED 001*. as, 1905.

[EVER/DZ.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CAR-LEVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 24, 1906.

Application filed October 25,1905. Serial No. 284.269.

To (t/Z who? it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE B. SULLIVAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ev'anston, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-\loving Levers; and I do declare the following to be a clear, full, and exact description thereof, attention being called to the accompanying drawings, with the reference characters marked thereon, which form also a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in hand-manipulated implements for moving vehicles traveling on track-rails, more particularly railway-cars, the movement being intended to be over limited distances only.

Devices of this kind are known as carlevers, car-movers, pinch-bars, &c., and for use they are supported on the rail close to a car-wheel and manipulated in a manner to act against the face of such wheel so as to rotate the same a limited distance, the resulting advance being followed up with the implement and by a similar manipulation of it, which is successively repeated until the car has been moved to the desired position. In order to carry out the intended operation, it is necessary that the implement rest firmly upon the rail while acting against the carwheel.

One feature of my present invention relates particularly to means provided to se cure this desired hold of the implement upon the rail.

Other features relate to improvements of the construction in general and in detail.

In the following specification and particu larly pointed out in the claims at the end thereof is found a full description of my invention, together with its manner of use, parts, and construction, which latter is also illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows the in'iplement and the manner of use, for which purpose parts of a car near one of its ends are shown, the position of the implement being the one at the beginning of its manipulation. Fig. 2 is part of a similar view, but at enlargeiil scale shows the implement in position after a manipulation, the previous position of the carwheel, before moved, being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a top view of the implement as shown in the preceding figure. Fig. 4 is an under side view of the same. Fig. 5 is an enlarged cross-section on lines 5 5 of Fig. 2. Fig. 6 shows the front end of the implement as it appears in Figs. 2 or 3 witha certain part removed.

The implement represents substantially a lever, fulcrumed at A, manipulated at B, and acting against the face 0 of a car-wheel C at D. The manipulation consists of bearing down at B to move the lever from the position shown in Fig. 1 to the one shown in Fig. 2, whereby point I) is raised, thus acting against the car-wheel and shoving the same ahead, as shown by the two positions indicated in Fig. 2. The lever is now raised again, end D is shoved forward into the space under the wheel and between the rail below, as shown in Fig. 1, and the same manipulation is repeated. Generally the car when once started can be readily kept going by rapidly following up with the implement behind the wheel.

As to construction, the implement consists of the handle 8, which is of wood, and of the lever 9 proper, which is of metal, preferably malleable iron or cast-steel. The wooden handle is merely a continuation of this iron lever in one direction, and both may also be in one integral piece. At one end the. metal part has a socket 10 to receive one end of the wooden handle 8. Otherwise and forward of this socket lever 9 is substantially of T- shaped profile, consisting of a vertical rib 11 and of a flange 12 at the upper edge of the rib. At the front end of lever 9 the thickness of this rib 11 is laterally enlarged in both directions, (see particularly Figs. 2 and 6,) permitting formation of two checks 13 13 with a recess 14 between, within and between which checks heel-piece D is pivotally supported,which being carried at the upper corner of the front end of the lever forms the actual contact-point with the car-wheel. This heel-piece consists of the angularly-arranged flange (1 with a rib below, which reaches into recess 14, where it is supported to have a limited pivotal motion, (note Figs. 1 and 2,) whereby slipping on the. face of the car-wheel is prevented when the movement of the lever is started. The fulcrum A on which the lever swings is constituted by the pivotpin shown thereat, the ends of which are sup ported in the sides 15 15 of a shoe, the base 16 of which rests on rail 17. From each lateral edge of this base there projects downwardly a lug 18, the object of which is to prevent the implement from slipping off sidewise from the rail while manipulated. To prevent the shoe from slipping rearwardly on the rail and away from wheel 0 when power is applied at B, I provide a sole 19 below base 16 of a material which does not readily slip. Leather is the most preferable material for this purpose, and the same is held between two undercut or inwardly-beveled ridges 21 on each edge of base 16. These ridges also converge, so that a piece of leather correspondingly cut may be pushed in between them and firmly held. Material equivalent to leather for the purposelike rubber, fabric, or compositions of such materialsmay be used in place of leather. A customary steel spur 22,which is renewable, may also be added. To increase the resistance of the shoe against slipping, the larger part of it, particularly of its base, is located back of fulcrum A. To prevent the shoe from sliding on the front edge of the leather sole when the lever is pushed ahead, I provide a nose 28, which projects forwardly from base 16 and which slides along the rail as the implement is pushed forward.

Having described my invention, I claim as new 1. In a car-moving lever, the combination with the lever proper, of an angular heelpiece pivotally carried at the upper corner of its front end and a shoe whereby the lever rests upon the rail. I

2. A car-moving lever, the front part of which is T -shaped in profile and provided with a vertical rib which is laterally enlarged to form two cheeks-with a recess between, in combination with aheel-piece having an angular-arranged flange with a rib whereby it is pivotally secured in the recess mentioned and a shoe whereby the lever rests upon the rail.

3. A car-moving lever, in combination with a shoe on which it rests and which shoe is provided with a contact-surface on its under side, or sole of leather, or material equiv-' alent thereto like rubber, fabric or compositions of these materials.

4. A car-moving lever in combination with a shoe consisting of a base and two sides projecting upwardly therefrom and between which it is fulcrumed and which base is provided with ridges on its under side, one on each edge, and a sole of leather held between these ridges.

5. A car-moving lever in combination with a shoe consisting of a base and two sides projecting upwardly therefrom and between which it isfulcrumed and which base is provided with ridges on its under side, one on each edge, a sole of leather held between these ridges and a nose projecting from the base in front of this sole.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afIiX my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE B. SULLIVAN 

